..., the actor who plays one of the film’s two serial killers, Buffalo Bill, was for years my neighbor, three houses away, in Oak Park, Illinois. Now, this coincidence would hardly merit attention if it were not for the role that neighborliness plays in the film itself, when its heroine, Clarice...

... Obscura tions that themselves constitute sites of potential monstrosity.5 Wardrop, for example, effectively illustrates the problems associ- ated with reading either Bill or the film’s heroine, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), as figures interrogating contemporary gender crises. And for Judith...

..., the monster is everywhere and everyone and the monster’s story is not distinguishable from other textual productions validated within the film. The Silence ofthe Lambs skillfully pits Jodie Foster as FBI agent Clarice Starling against the charismatic intellect of ex...

... of Minnesota Press, 1988. $8.95. The Passion Accordingto G.H. by Clarice Lispeetor. University of Minnesota Press, 1988. $8.95. Art Into Pop by Simon Frith and Howard Home. Roudedge, 1988. $9.95. Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 ...

... Press, 1989. $29.50. Returning to the Scene: Blake Edwards, Volume 2 by William Luhr and Peter Lehman. Ohio University Press, 1989. $14.95. The Stream of Life by Clarice Lispector. Foreword by HElCne Cixous. Uni- versity of Minnesota Press, 1989. $9.95. Redrawing the Lines: Analytic...